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With current master, on a Fedora 27 machine with a kernel with buggy
watchpoint support, I see:
(gdb) PASS: gdb.threads/watchpoint-fork.exp: parent: singlethreaded: hardware breakpoints work
continue
Continuing.
warning: Remote failure reply: E01
Remote communication error. Target disconnected.: Connection reset by peer.
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.threads/watchpoint-fork.exp: parent: singlethreaded: watchpoints work
continue
The program is not being run.
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.threads/watchpoint-fork.exp: parent: singlethreaded: breakpoint after the first fork (the program is no longer running)
The FAILs themselves aren't what's interesting here. What is
interesting is that with the main multi-target patch applied, I was getting this:
(gdb) PASS: gdb.threads/watchpoint-fork.exp: parent: singlethreaded: hardware breakpoints work
continue
Continuing.
warning: Remote failure reply: E01
/home/pedro/brno/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb-2/build/../src/gdb/inferior.c:285: internal-error: inferior* find_inferior_pid(process_stratum_target*, int): Assertion `pid != 0' failed.
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Quit this debugging session? (y or n) FAIL: gdb.threads/watchpoint-fork.exp: parent: singlethreaded: watchpoints work (GDB internal error)
The problem is that in remote_target::wait_as, we're hitting this:
switch (buf[0])
{
case 'E': /* Error of some sort. */
/* We're out of sync with the target now. Did it continue or
not? Not is more likely, so report a stop. */
rs->waiting_for_stop_reply = 0;
warning (_("Remote failure reply: %s"), buf);
status->kind = TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED;
status->value.sig = GDB_SIGNAL_0;
break;
which leaves event_ptid as null_ptid. At the end of the function, we then reach:
else if (status->kind != TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED
&& status->kind != TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED)
{
if (event_ptid != null_ptid)
record_currthread (rs, event_ptid);
else
event_ptid = inferior_ptid; <<<<< here
}
and the trouble is that with the multi-target patch, we'll get here
with inferior_ptid as null_ptid too. That is done exactly to find
these implicit assumptions that inferior_ptid is a good choice for
default thread, which isn't generaly true.
I first thought of fixing this in the "case 'E'" path, but, given that
this "event_ptid = inferior_ptid" path is also taken when the remote
target does not support threads at all, no thread-related packets or
extensions, it's better to fix it in latter path, to handle all
scenarios that miss reporting a thread.
That's what this patch does.
gdb/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* remote.c (first_remote_resumed_thread): New.
(remote_target::wait_as): Use it as default event_ptid instead of
inferior_ptid.
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gdb/remote.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)